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William Harvey and the circulation of the blood

by: Wellcome Library

Publication date: 1978

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States

Topics: Harvey, William, 1578-1657, Blood Circulation -- history, Physiology -- history, Human physiology, Blood Circulation -- history, Physiology -- history, Medicine

Publisher: Douglas Fisher Productions for the Royal College of Physicians. Historical research and script by Gweneth Whitteridge, Charles Newman and Leonard Payne. Harvey's experiments reconstructed by Michael de Burgh Daly and Leonard Goodwin.

Digitizing sponsor: Douglas Fisher Productions

Abbreviated version of the 1971-72 film of the same title but preserving almost all the historical and experimental physiological content of the longer version. Described by Dr. W.F. Bynum (WIHM) as ...one of the best films ever produced on the history of medicine...highly recommended . 5 segments.